VISTA stares deep into the cosmos
eso_eso1213a March 21st, 2012
Credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU
This view shows a section of the widest deep view of the sky ever taken using infrared light, with a total effective exposure time of 55 hours. It was created by combining more than 6000 individual images from the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This picture shows a region of the sky known as the COSMOS field in the constellation of Sextans (The Sextant). More than 200 000 galaxies have been identified in this picture.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1213a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1213a
- Subject Category
- D.6.1.1
- Subject Name
- COSMOS Field
- Credits
- ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU
- Release Date
- 2012-03-21T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1213a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
- Instrument
- VIRCAM, VIRCAM, VIRCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue, Green
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Ks, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 150.034793597, 2.35059338183
- Reference Dimension
- 17121.0, 10824.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8560.5, 5412.0
- Scale
- -8.33191181913e-05, 8.33191181913e-05
- Rotation
- -0.01080470989319
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1213a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1213a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-03-15T12:14:47+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
